NEWS THE VSL NEWS MAGAZINE • ISSUE TWO-2003 Corrosion, the VSL weapons! La Unidad Bridge, Mexico FACTS&TRENDS 4 Nails for Buddha protection 4 Management systems certification 5 ts BUDDHA 4 COVER STORY 6 CORROSION: The VSL weapons! h Electrically-isolated tendons 7 CRaron Bridge site in Switzerland 9 Piling up barriers against corrosion 10 Stay cables: corrosion handled for 100 years! 11 g SITE INSIGHTS 12 Taiwan: fast-track beams completed 12 CORROSION 6 Keen on speed at Kien, Vietnam 12 Shaft in rock at Lok Ma Chau, Hong Kong 13 hli Chile: 2,222 segments KIEN 12 on the Metro de Santiago 18 g SPECIAL REPORT 20 FOOTBRIDGES: Why not thin and blue? Very slender structures, a multiplicity of textures and as durable as granite: Ductal® hi makes all these bold advances possible… TECH SHOW 22 Men at work Delivery of the Puente de la Unidad, Mexico. MEN AT WORK 24 NEWS, magazine published by VSL International Ltd. • Scheibenstrasse 70 – Bern, Switzerland and VSL • Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Director of Publication: Jean-Philippe Trin •
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[email protected] Design: Red Line Photos: DM Allan, I. Masterton, J. Orozco, B. Strahm, others. Copyright: VSL • December 2003 Cover photo: Puente la Unidad ISSUE TWO • 2003 EDITORIAL Combating corrosion: a job for specialists Ground anchor tendons, stay cables, internal and external post-tensioning systems, bearings, joints… our products are the constituent elements of structures.